NEW glib-1.2.10-32.el5 : A library of handy utility functions
NEW gtk+-1.2.10-68.el5 : The GIMP ToolKit
NEW imlib-1.9.15-11.el5 : An image loading and rendering library for X11R6

Why are these packages going into EPEL? These seem to be clear
violations of the EPEL "Guidelines and Policies":
"EPEL packages should only enhance and never disturb the Enterprise
Linux distributions they were build for. Thus packages from EPEL should
never replace packages from the target base distribution - including
those on the base distribution as well as layered products;"
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies
~spot

On 04/21/2009 12:21 PM, buildsys(a)fedoraproject.org wrote:
> Packages built and released for Fedora EPEL testing/5: 8
> NEW glib-1.2.10-32.el5 : A library of handy utility functions
> NEW gtk+-1.2.10-68.el5 : The GIMP ToolKit
> NEW imlib-1.9.15-11.el5 : An image loading and rendering library for X11R6
Why are these packages going into EPEL? These seem to be clear
violations of the EPEL "Guidelines and Policies":

IIRC RHEL 5 does not include gtk 1 as opposed to 2. What violation do
you see?
Rahul

On 04/21/2009 10:11 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On 04/21/2009 12:21 PM, buildsys(a)fedoraproject.org wrote:
>> Packages built and released for Fedora EPEL testing/5: 8
>>
>> NEW glib-1.2.10-32.el5 : A library of handy utility functions
>> NEW gtk+-1.2.10-68.el5 : The GIMP ToolKit
>> NEW imlib-1.9.15-11.el5 : An image loading and rendering library for
>> X11R6
>
> Why are these packages going into EPEL? These seem to be clear
> violations of the EPEL "Guidelines and Policies":
IIRC RHEL 5 does not include gtk 1 as opposed to 2. What violation do
you see?

On Tuesday 21 April 2009 11:52:25 am Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 04/21/2009 10:11 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > On 04/21/2009 12:21 PM, buildsys(a)fedoraproject.org wrote:
> >> Packages built and released for Fedora EPEL testing/5: 8
> >>
> >> NEW glib-1.2.10-32.el5 : A library of handy utility functions
> >> NEW gtk+-1.2.10-68.el5 : The GIMP ToolKit
> >> NEW imlib-1.9.15-11.el5 : An image loading and rendering library
> >> for X11R6
> >
> > Why are these packages going into EPEL? These seem to be clear
> > violations of the EPEL "Guidelines and Policies":
>
> IIRC RHEL 5 does not include gtk 1 as opposed to 2. What violation
> do you see?
glib and gtk+ are in rhel. i will remove them now
imlib is not

I recently became the maintainer of glib/gtk+ and there were already
EL-5 branches there. As I was doing a bugfix update for imlib I thought
I'd freshen up glib/gtk+ whilst I was at it too.
Those branches need to be marked dead. I'll do that.
Paul.

[...]Why are these packages going into EPEL? These seem to be clear
violations of the EPEL "Guidelines and Policies":
"EPEL packages should only enhance and never disturb the Enterprise
Linux distributions they were build for. Thus packages from EPEL should
never replace packages from the target base distribution - including
those on the base distribution as well as layered products;"

Just for the record: since it was mentioned in the bz (see below) but
ignored: since RHEL 5.3, part of the openjdk stack (i.e. all but the
browser plugin) has been included in the main distro. However this
version has a lower EVR than what was already included in EPEL ( not to
mention that the existing package maintainer was completely ignored).
Bottom line, anyone using RHEL 5.3 (or Centos 5.3) and EPEL will be
offered the package from EPEL as an update.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494265https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483881#c1